[vox-tech] Inspiron 8100 Backlight problems

[Hans W. Uhlig]

Ok full details of odd behaviour, If I reset the
resolution on battery power it turns the backlight on,
If I reset the resolution while power is ON it turns
the backlight off... Any help would be wonderful, (I
have reset the bios, reflashed the bios, checked
acpi(still a possible problem)

--- "Hans W. Uhlig" <deathguard at yahoo.com> wrote:

> it works sometimes and not others
> --- Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > 
> > > (note, fwd'ing this for Hans, who posted from a
> > non-sub'd address...
> > > then I sub'd it :^) )
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> > > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: "Hans W. Uhlig" <deathguard at yahoo.com>
> > > Subject: Inspiron 8100 Backlight problems
> > > To: vox-tech at lists.lugod.org
> > > 
> > > Anyone know how to force a backlight to turn on,
> > > whenever my laptop switches resolutions now the
> > > backlight turns off... which makes it impossible
> > to
> > > use. Any ideas would be more then helpful.
> > 
> > Try cycling through the crt/lcd modes with Fn-F8?
> > 
> >
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